Ink Paper Chisel Grain: A Remarkable History of Woodcuts by Paul Coldwell Groundswell Speaker 2024 Jiatong Liu

Jiatong Liu

by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers

Brimming with empathy and pathos

In the tradition of Walter Benjamin and other chroniclers of Paris

to the scandalous betrayals in The Traitors – and captures the heart of gossiping: how enchanting and fun it can be to lean over and whisper something a little salacious into your friend’s ear

Ink Paper Chisel Grain: A Remarkable History of Woodcuts by Paul Coldwell Groundswell Speaker 2024 Jiatong LiuDATE OF RELEASE: 20 AUG 2026 Discover the magic, power and craft of one of the world's most significant art forms: the woodcut. For almost two thousand years, artists have transformed a piece of wood into meaning by cutting its surface, inking the block and transferring the image to paper, creating some of the most significant works in art history, like Hokusais The Great Wave and Drer's Apocalypse. This is a book about why the woodcut matters and why